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I can help you to design, evaluate and/or implement appropriate digital technologies for young children (aged 0-12 years) by drawing on my research and teaching experience about how young children use and respond to the design of digital media.

Let me take the guesswork out of your design process and arm you with research-based advice or information about how technology impacts on young children’s learning and development.

Let me take the guesswork out of your design process and arm you with research-based advice or information about how technology impacts on young children’s learning and development.

Kristy is fantastic talent. Authentic, insightful and genuine in her commentary. She worked with nbn™ as part of our back-to-school campaign and did a terrific job at landing our key messages while also delivering interesting and engaging interviews across a broad range of media including ACA, ABC News Breakfast and New Idea. I would highly recommend her.

Dan Chamberlain | Public Affairs Manager – Consumer | nbn™

Dr Kristy has a great ability to demystify, interpret and cut through the hype. We were so lucky to have her as our resident expert for Nick Jr. Parents. Kristy’s blog posts were always incredibly insightful and right on the pulse of where parents were at. Her video contributions were always engaging and perceptive. In person, at our live events, Kristy was a great ambassador and we received lots of positive (and thankful) feedback from parents.

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I provide evidence-based information and advice about how technology can be purposefully designed or modified to enhance young children’s learning and development.

I help children’s media developers and designers create or refine their digital products so they they’re commensurate with young children’s learning and developmental needs.

I help telecommunications companies communicate with parent audiences about healthy and helpful ways to navigate technology in family homes (so parents can finally ditch the guilt and confusion).

I conduct independent research about the impact and effectiveness of digital technologies on children’s learning with educational providers, schools and children’s media developers.

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Why work with me?

I wrote a PhD about how the design of young children’s media impacts their learning. I love this stuff, so much so that I spent over three years looking at and conducting research in this field! My work and experience integrates aspects of developmental science, neuroscience and technology research. I not only draw on academic research, but also my extensive teaching practice and experience as a mum!

I’m adept at translating the research into practical and essential information for children’s media designers, media providers and educational organisations. I act as a conduit between the research and academic worlds and the practical realities from a parent’s, media-developer’s or educator’s perspective.

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Dr Kristy Goodwin is a highly soughtafter expert on the impact of technology on young children’s health, learning and development (and also a mum!). Kristy’s a speaker, author, workshop facilitator, researcher and consultant who delivers evidence-based information about the impact of digital technologies on young children’s learning, health, wellbeing and development. She’s passionate about sharing the latest research and insights into how “digitalised childhoods” are changing the ways that young children learn, play and develop (without telling parents or educators that they need to ban the iPad, or disconnect the Internet).

With over 14 years of experience in teaching and research, Kristy has a gift for cutting through media-hype, myths and misnomers about what young children really need to thrive in a digital age (based on latest neuroscience and developmental science). Dr Kristy is regularly called on by the media for her insight. With a gift for cutting through media-hype and conflicting research, Dr Kristy conducts and translates the latest research into practical and digestible information for today’s bamboozled parents, to assist them with the enormous task of parenting in the digital age. She helps ease parents’ techno guilt so that they can find healthy and helpful ways to use digital technologies with young children (without having to ban the iPad or disconnect in the Internet).

Dr Kristy has conducted numerous evaluations and research studies for the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, including studies examining the effectiveness of tablet technologies and game based learning in classrooms. Dr Kristy is often featured as a keynote speaker at Australian and Internationalconferences on digital technologies and their impact on young children’s learning, health and wellbeing. Kristy regularly speaks at preschools, long day care centres, primary schools, and secondary schools throughout Australia to parent and educator audiences and to health professionals who are concerned about the impact of technology on children’s wellbeing and development.

Dr Kristy’s previous clients include Apple, Nickelodeon Junior Channel, McDonald’s, the National Broadband Network, NSW Department of Education and Communities and Optus. She’s worked with various multimedia companies, guiding the development of appropriate and educational multimedia programs to support youngchildren’s learning and development.

Along with being an Honorary Associate at Macquarie University at the Institute of Early Childhood, Kristy has worked as a primary school and early childhood teacher for thirteen years in a range of educational settings in Australia and Asia. In 2004 Kristy was awarded an NSW Quality Teaching Award and in 2007 was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship for her doctoral studies at Macquarie University where she completed a PhD on the impact of digital technologies on young children’s learning.

Kristy has written a book, Raising Your Child in a Digital World, with Finch Publishers and has been a contributing author to two academic books (Springer, 2013 and Routledge 2016), in addition to regular academic publications.

LINKS TO PUBLISHED RESEARCH STUDIES

I’ve conducted numerous independent evaluations and research studies with the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities about the impact of educational technologies on students’ learning.

Ipad Evaluation

Read the Executive Summary from the NSW Department of Education & Communities Evaluation

I’ve also acted as a children’s technology and development expert for the design of the McDonald’s Emling app (available in Australia and New Zealand).

See the Emlings app where I acted as an educational and multimedia consultant. I’ve also worked with children’s multimedia developers and producers to develop digital tools for young children that are aligned with their learning and developmental needs.